Railroaded Episode 5 - The Targeting and Caging of Ross Ulbricht

Railroaded is a special release on The What Bitcoin Did Podcast.

More Information: Railroaded Website | Sign the Petition

Regular listeners will be aware how important this case is to me and that I have twice had Ross’s mother, Lyn Ulbricht on the podcast to discuss the case and Ross.

Railroaded is a 6-part series documenting the case. It is based on public information sources, including court filings, transcripts, trial exhibits, affidavits, warrant applications, subpoenas, judicial rulings, investigation reports, press releases, sworn testimonies and direct evidence. Some gaps remain due to government protective orders, redactions, sealed records, missing records the court cannot account for, dropped investigations, tampered evidence, communications and other data that remain encrypted, and the fact many of the parties involved have not testified.

Even so, every effort has been made to accurately present the available evidence surrounding the creation, investigation and shutdown of Silk Road, and the prosecution of Ross Ulbricht.

Note: the information presented in Railroaded is based solely on the public record and should not be attributed to me, Ross Ulbricht, Lyn Ulbricht, or anyone connected with freeross.org.

I am also not responsible for and do not verify for accuracy any of the information contained within this series.

While I am close to the case due to my interviews with Lyn, I have not been involved in any of the production of this series.

Railroaded was created and produced by the Free Ross team. I am allowing them to use my podcast to reach a wider audience, and hopefully raise awareness of Ross’s plight and his fight for clemency. This is now the best chance to stop Ross from spending the rest of his life in prison.

Railroaded is also available on the Free Ross website and YouTube.

There are extensive show notes in the footer of this page.

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Show Notes

Read about or support the campaign to free Ross:
- Petition for clemency at Change.org
- Website: https://freeross.org/
- Twitter @free_ross
- Follow Ross on Twitter@RealRossU
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Instagram

Media:
- Deep web documentary
- Cady Voge interview with Lyn Ulbricht

My previous interview with Lyn:
- Interview 1 - Podcast
- Interview 1 - Video
- Interview 2 - Podcast

Updates on the Case:
- Reason: Ross Ulbricht's Murder-for-Hire Charges Dropped by U.S. Attorney
- Bitcoin Magazine: Ross Ulbricht Is Denied Prison Sentence Review by Supreme Court
- CCN: Libertarian Party Urges Trump to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
- Bitcoin News: Change.org Petition Attempts to Fight for Ross Ulbricht’s Freedom

Articles/research about the Silk Road:
- The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable
- Use of Silk Road, the online drug marketplace, in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States
- Lost on the Silk Road: Online drug distribution and the ‘cryptomarket’
- I shop online – recreationally! Internet anonymity and Silk Road enabling drug use in Australia
- The closure of the Silk Road: what has this meant for online drug trading?
- Responsible vendors, intelligent consumers: Silk Road, the online revolution in drug trading
- ‘Silk Road’, the virtual drug marketplace: A single case study of user experiences
- Silk Road online drug market taken down
- A Silk Road to total freedom?
- Silk Road, The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable, Is Back And Busier Than Ever
- Silk Road: EBay for Drugs
- Silk Road: A Vicious Blow to the War on Drugs

Articles about the case:
- Silk Road’s mastermind Ross Ulbricht takes case to US Court of Appeals
- Snowden Releases NSA Documents Showing Bitcoin Was “#1 Priority”
- The Supreme Court is Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s last hope
- Ross Ulbricht Denied Post-Conviction Relief Extension
- Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker?
- Ross Ulbricht Moved to Colorado, will Petition Supreme Court
- Living With Ross Ulbricht: Housemates Say They Saw No Clues Of Silk Road Or The Dread Pirate Roberts